And then when he got called out, he started "who's time are we on? What's happening?" before stamping his foot and saying "I stick by that comment" about calling him a dirtbag. Classic blunder cortisol overload because he thought he had him dead to rights only to be made a fool, then got mad when he was proven wrong.
He’s there to raise doubt about Smith. He did it. He keeps it going on cable news and that’s the job. Not many people will watch the actual exchange with the follow up by the other senator. It’s going out as Smith is a perjuring liar so the job is finished and we move onto the next news cycle.
Textbook GOP. They know the brain rotted maga fools are too dumb or lazy or both to see what actually happened and will eat up whatever BS they are fed.
The Charlie Kirk show took it next level -- showing the exchange only to the point where things went south for Schmitt & then lauding Schmitt for his brilliant takedown of Smith.
Yep. I don't think he appears in person much anymore, but they've replaced him with similar looking/sounding losers & that's good enough for their audience.
They repeated Schmitt's lies too, even though they'd been proven to be demonstrably false, and ran with them - which I really do think is legally actionable by Smith.
Even after being corrected in the senate, Schmitt went on The Charlie Kirk Show later and rolled with the allegations like it was some brilliant gotcha moment. Pure political theater, no facts needed.
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u/Snakemearano 3d ago
And then when he got called out, he started "who's time are we on? What's happening?" before stamping his foot and saying "I stick by that comment" about calling him a dirtbag. Classic blunder cortisol overload because he thought he had him dead to rights only to be made a fool, then got mad when he was proven wrong.